The event is the first by the group to tap into $2.35 million in funding from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority board of directors to expand CicLAvia-partnered projects in the county.

Next year, the group will bring the city's signature bike-friendly events into various parts of Los Angeles County, including Pasadena and Culver City, CicLAvia spokesman Robert Gard said.

"Part of our goal is to get people to go into different parts of the county and really connect people to places they haven't been before," Gard said. "We want to show them them different communities, different business."

A city of Los Angeles decision to allow motorists to use a popular hiking and cycling route in Griffith Park to alleviate congestion on other hillside roads has pitted park lovers against area residents, mirroring a similar dispute in neighboring Beachwood Canyon.

The sweeps came on Friday nights in South Los Angeles, often before big events like Raiders games. Police would round up young men they thought were gang members and hold them over the weekend to keep violence down, a campaign launched by then-Chief Daryl F. Gates to control "the rotten...

Yosemite National Park is bracing for its driest year on record, with visitor bureaus downplaying the allure of the park's most famous waterfall and instead touting the park as a destination for hiking, bicycling and photography.